Standing before their colleagues at the National Science Foundation in Washington last week, five scientists received the annual Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Awards given the AEC for contributions in developing atomic energy. The very name of the prize testified to its significancefor Physicist Lawrence, who died in 1958, was one of the great atomic adventurers. He built the first cyclotron, was one of the scientists who advised President Franklin Roosevelt on the first atomic bomb, organized the Radiation Laboratory at the University of Californiastill one of the country's prime sources of nuclear research. Winners of the $5,000 tax-free awards:
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